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"Peter C. Chapin" <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu> wrote in message 
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> In any case, functional languages are becoming industrially 
> significant. Microsoft is fully supporting F# (an OCaml dialect) and 
> Scala is doing well in the Java ecosystem. I think we will see more of 
> this sort of thing in the future rather than less.
>

Yes, I noticed MS suggesting, with their F#, that functional languages 
have a potential market. Makes me wonder what I'd do with my free time if 
functional languages took over from the imperative language.